I'm using Google Custom Search Engine (https://cse.google.com). I used the client side script which creates a search element inside my html pages. The code looks like this:
<script>
(function() {
var cx = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:yyyyy';
var gcse = document.createElement('script');
gcse.type = 'text/javascript';
gcse.async = true;
gcse.src = (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:') +
'//www.google.com/cse/cse.js?cx=' + cx;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);
})();
</script>
<gcse:searchresults-only></gcse:searchresults-only>
It works fine, but I need to add an option for users to choose which date range they want to search for. For example 'past month' or 'past week' ...
I saw people are talking about a parameter called as_qdr which could be set to 'm' or 'w' for this purpose. The problem is, by using the default javascript code, I don't have access to specific API url to append as_qdr=m to. I couldn't find any good documentation about how to do this.
If you take a look at http://www.reuters.com/search/news?blob=test for example you'll see what I mean. There is an option to choose the date range for the result.
Is there anyone who has done this before? Thanks.
I ended up using their RESTful APIs. So I designed the search form myself and then query Google for the result.
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/overview